(Great is Tokyo)Right Man in the Right Place
Mr. Akio Toyoda was at Davos for the (sinful) world economic forum early in this January.
Then, he was forced virtually to fly to Washington D.C. to attend a cool hearing in the Congress.
Mr. Yoichi Masuzoe, globally nameless but domestically the most supported virtual next prime minister of Japan, left the former ruling party the Liberal Democratic Party to pursue his own way for the top leader of Japan.
And, now Ms. Sarah Louise Palin is not in Alaska but in tea parties here and there.
The place where you are in at a critical moment might decide your fate, though Secretary Mrs. Hillary Rodham Clinton was in Hawaii when the great earthquake hit Haiti.
(That is why I do not like to be in a TV station in Tokyo at any moment.)
SECTION I: How Much Is America Disliked?
Washington Post might be thinking that it wisely put down Japanese Prime Minister Mr. Yukio Hatoyama.
On the other hand, P.M. Mr. Hatoyama said to LDP President Mr. Sadakazu Tanigaki in a session of the Japanese Diet, "I might have been a foolish prime minister as so criticized. But, I have an idea and a resolution to fix the matter by the end of May..."
All the very-rich Japanese like America, except Prime Minister Mr. Yukio Hatoyama.
Among all the Japanese Prime Ministers since 1950's, the current P.M. Mr. Hatoyama is outstanding in that he does not look like liking America as he is trying to abolish an old plan bilaterally agreed on between the former Japanese Government and the U.S.
Last Devember, the head of the anti-American party the Social Democratic Party of Japan (SDP) threatened P.M. Mr. Hatoyama, saying that she would cancel the coalition, leaving the Hatoyama Cabinet, so that Mr. Hatoyama's DPJ would lose a majority superiority in the Upper House, unless Mr. Hatoyama should fight against America in terms of U.S. military bases in Japan. As a result, P.M. Mr. Hatoyama changed his initial policy to accept the old agreement with America on relocation of the U.S. Marine Corps' Futenma air base in Okinawa. Then, the Hatoyama cabinet started to take a weaving course, with its approval rate falling down to a 20% level.
In addition, Mr. Ichiro Ozawa, who virtually controls a majority of DPJ lawmakers, supports the head of the SDP, leaving no choice for P.M. Mr. Hatoyama but to accept the SDP's claim. P.M. Mr. Hatoyama is thus trying hard to move the U.S. Marine air base out of Okinawa, abolishing an old plan, agreed on between the LDP regime and the U.S. Government, to move it to a less populated area on the Okinawa island.
As a consequence, P.M. Mr. Hatoyama is under criticisms on behalf of the SDP, a very minor anti-American party, and Mr. Ichiro Ozawa, a very veteran pro-Chinese lawmaker since 1969.
But, if Mr. Yukio Hatoyama, a grandson of the founder of tire maker Bridgstone Corp. which legally fought against Ford around 2000, liked America like other very-rich Japanese, the situation should be very different.
What has made Japanese Prime Minister so anti-American must be a key issue for Japanese and American journalists, though he studied in Stanford University for several years in 1970's to get a doctor's degree and met his future (Japanese) wife in San Francisco.
And, symbolically, Mrs. Miyuki Hatoyama was born in Shanghai in 1943.
Anyway, being anti-American might be a very luxury allowed to some Japanese who are rich and secured enough not to envy the rich and the power of America.
SECTION II: Wars and Wars till 1937 in China
Without mentioning great turmoil in the wake of fall of the Ching Dynasty, the Chinese Civil Wars fought between the Kuomintang (KMT or Chinese Nationalist Party) and the Communist Party of China even after the death of the Chinese revolutionary hero Sun Yat-sen (Son-Bun in Japanese) in 1925 as follows:
1927 - Nanchang Uprising
1927 - Autumn Harvest Uprising
1927 - Guangzhou Uprising
1930 - 1931 First Encirclement Campaign
1931 - Second Encirclement Campaign
1931 - Third Encirclement Campaign
1932 - Fourth Encirclement Campaign
1933 - 1934 Fifth Encirclement Campaign
1934-1936 Long March
1935 - Battles at the Luding Bridge
They also entered the war with the Empire of Japan:
1931 - Mukden Incident
1932 - January 28 Incident
1933 - Defense of the Great Wall
1937 - Marco Polo Bridge Incident
1937 - Battle of Beiping-Tianjin
1937 - Battle of Shanghai
1937 - Battle of Pingxingguan
1937 - Battle of Taiyuan
1937 - Battle of Nanjing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Chinese_battles
So, China before WWII did suffer great casualties not only due to the war with Japan but also because of endless battles among Chinese themselves that continued even after WWII.
For example, in the Fourth Encirclement Campaign in 1932, Chiang Kaishek (Sho-Kaiseki in Japanese) mobilized actually one million troops in 15 divisions, but the Chinese Communist Army destroyed three of the 15 divisions to escape the encirclement. Yet, it is not clear how many poor Chinese citizens and farmers were involved and sacrificed in these battles between the warring Chinese camps.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Encirclement_Campaign_against_Jiangxi_Soviet
(http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%95%B7%E5%BE%81)
Whole China before 1937 had been already in a chaos of wars. And, the Empire of Japan had no plan to invade and occupy whole China, though it maintained its interest in Manchuria and Shanghai relying on its own military forces.
Anyway hatred to Nazi Germany should not be diverted to the Empire of Japan, since the Empire (and even General Hideki Tojo) saved the lives of tens of thousands of Judaists before and during WWII around Manchuria and Shanghai.
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There is a specific word in Japanese "Guchoku" against "Oroka."
"Oroka" simply means foolish or loopy.
But, "Guchoku" means being stubbornly honest even looking like a fool.
Some say that Prime Minister Mr. Yukio Hatoyama meant that he is "Guchoku" but not "Orokoa," thus Washington Post is wrong.
However, it is rare that a Japanese woman is described as being "Guchoku."
Probably, being "Guchoku" does not make a woman look pretty.
Yet, a wife had better be "Guchoku" rather than "Oroka."
( http://www.zianet.com/jw_laurie/Sounds/more.mid
Source:http://www.zianet.com/jw_laurie/midipage.html
I saw somebody in red and white, to make it sure...darling.)
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